to HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



The publishers of the ' ' L,and of Sunshine ' ' generously allowed me 

 the use of many of their half-tones and other plates, some of 

 which they held in special reserve and would neither lend or hire 

 to anybody else for the present. Photographer Geo. L,. Rose of Pasadena 

 and engraver Herve Friend of L,os Angeles made for me without 

 charge the frontispiece picture, showing myself and wife going to church on 

 our wheels. Heman Dyer, city clerk, and Judge J. G. Rossiter, city re- 

 corder, gave me every facility and convenience, for examining the city 

 records and archives. Prof. T. S. C. lyOwe furnished free transportation for 

 myself and wife over his mountain railroads, for any further investigations 

 we might wish to make in that region during the years 1894-95. And many 

 others kindly and cordially loaned me books or documents I needed ; or car- 

 ried me on trips to visit canyons, mines, mills, springs, ancient dams, etc. ; 

 also to visit the aged Spanish women at L,inda Vista bluff and San Gabriel 

 village. These of course were extra long or difficult trips, beyond my 

 strength for bicycle travel ; but for any ordinary run of one, two or three 

 miles, I could go on my wheel. 



Everybody seemed pleased to learn of the work I had undertaken apd 

 glad if they could aid me in some way. It was at once pleasant, encourag- 

 ing and helpful to find such a general feeling of confidence and trust that I 

 would do the work well ; and at the same time it bore in upon me a deeper 

 sense of responsibility, and a keener pressure of obligation to spare no pains 

 for making my work of permanent value — the standard reference book and 

 authority on Pasadena matters, for all the years and interests covered by it. 

 Friends, I have done what I could. And now I respectfully submit my 

 work, which will reveal to you how truly Pasadena is a veritable surprise- 

 garden of local history.* 



H. A. R. 



Pasadena, Cal., 133 Mary street, 

 October 12, 1895. 



* The following from the Z)a//r 5/a>- of September 9, 1895, I thought worth preserving as a rare 

 coiucidence in the " history of the History : " " The printing tis being done by the Kingsley-Barnes & 

 NeunerCo., and there are some curious incidents of Pasadenian associations connected with the job. Mr. 

 Davis, president and financier of the printing company, resides in Pasadena, and his son officiates as 

 copyholder for the proof-reading— while the foreman and proofreader Mr. H. K. Moles, formerly resided 

 in Des Moines, Iowa, and knew Dr. Reid there. Mr. Barnes, secretary of the company, is an old-time 

 Pasadena boy, and nephew to Thomas F. Croft. Mr. Fred Lang, vice-president of the company, and 

 who holds high rank as an embossing artist, was formerly a printer with H. N. Farey & Co. of Pasadena. 

 Mr. Blankenhorn, of Pasadena, has his photo-engraving business in the same building; and Wood & 

 Church have their Los Angeles branch real estate office there also. Mr. H. C. OBleness, the assistant 

 foreman, or "make-up," as printers say, who has the responsible task of arranging the type-pages 

 ready for press, is the same man who set the type of the first paper ever published in Pasadena — 7"//^ 

 C/iro«/c/(?— started and edited by Ben E. Ward in 1S83, and printed at the Los Angeles Times office. Mr. 

 O'Bleness also formerly knew Dr. Reid in Des Moines, Iowa— as did also Mr. Al. Binkard, the master 

 pressman in charge of the press-work on this Pasadena History. And young Walter Clapp, son of I. B. 

 Clapp, is in charge of the stock room of this great printing house. Yet when Dr. Reid first planned to 

 go there to get his work done he was not aware of any of these coincidences, except that Mr. Lang was 

 a member of the printing company." 



